Don’t lie to me; I know you’ve been waiting for this collection of links all week!
Sure, I may be a little harsh in my treatment of storytelling devices in movies, but William Goldman once dropped a bomb on Saving Private Ryan (which I’ve never seen and now don’t have to). I’m overreacting, I’m sure, but lazy storytelling isn’t just a pet peeve; it’s a sign of how little we care as a culture.
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It’d be more awesome if Tom Ford and Posh collaborated on a collection.
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This back-and-forth about Camille Paglia’s take on Lady Gaga reminds me of the most boring aspects of attending Hampshire College.
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Chicago Cubs FAIL (yet again)
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Samuel Beckett: I can’t go on, I’ll go on (very stylish in my starkness)
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. . . with my wife, Morgan Fairchild . . .
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Another things Jews & Muslims have in common: getting banned in New York.
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Figs: I’ll still eat them, despite their Cronenberg-esque genesis.
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Being the creative director at Maxim isn’t as dumb/easy as you’d think. (And Dick Barnett gets bonus points for sharing a name with a sleepy-eyed two-time NYKnick NBA champ.)
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Speaking of Maxim, here’s Bourgeois Surrender on lusty librarians.
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And, in honor of this evening’s Kol Nidre prayers — it’s Yom Kippur, don’tchaknow? — we get Michael Weiss’ explanation of why repenting all the vows you swore in the previous year doesn’t mean what anti-semites want it to mean.